Helena Bonham Carter: ‘Diversity means we’d have to make Enola Holmes Black now’
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hollywood.comHelena Bonham Carter believes Millie Bobby Brown would have lost out on the role of Enola Holmes to a black actress if the film was made in 2020.The mystery movie, based on Nancy Springer’s books, centers upon the teenage sister of an already-famous Sherlock Holmes, began shooting last year (2019), and is released on Netflix on Wednesday (September 23, 2020).Helena thinks that if the movie were produced now, it might have has a different lead due to Hollywood’s focus on racial diversity following the Black Lives Matter protests over the spring and summer.“Everyone’s desperate to talk about race these days, but it’s a good feminist movie,” The Crown star tells British newspaper The Times. “If we did it this year we’d have to make Millie.
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